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is an absolute necessity and is obviously a prerequisite to all musical understand- | 
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which has been repeatedly demonstrated that more than 98 per cent of the Au 
children in an American community beginning the study at six years of age 
under competent teachers, become singing children. Deferring the training 
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Hl assured during the first four or five years of school life. When the parents 
HY are musical, when the child hears musie from earliest infancy, when a keen 
Al sense of tone and rhythm is inherited from generations of musical parentage; 
AA when the musical nature is awakened by the rhythmic swing of the lullaby and 
made still more sensitive by music in the home during all the years preceding 
Hl) school age, the child possesses a priceless heritage. Only an occasional Ameri- 
A can child, however, is favored to such an extent. Such is the normal and usual 
inheritance of the German or Italian child, rich or poor. 


America lacks the rich literature of folk-music and the background of 
| | musical culture which is the boon of many foreign nations. We must cherish 
UNA and teach to our children that which we have, and borrow what is suitable, 
Alli especially folk songs, from other nations. Our children lack, in most part, the 
Hh inestimable advantage of musically trained parents and the invaluable musical 
atmosphere which pervades the genuinely musical home. 


Contrary to popular belief however, music teaching in the primary and 
secondary schools of Germany and France is not more advanced than in this 
country. The facts are that in no other country excepting Great Britain is the 
subject so well presented, the child voice so well understood and the material 
and methods so well adapted to school conditions as in many parts of the United 
States. 


These statements are made after personal investigation of conditions existing 
in the public schools of France, Germany and Great Britain. In France and 
Germany for example, the proper treatment of the child voice is not understood. 
and the results of children’s singing are positively injurious to the after voice. 
Even the authors of school music texts in these countries are uninformed con- 
cerning this most important side of school music and are as yet unaware of its 
ereat importance. 


On the other hand, Great Britain is the home of the boy choir, the best 
musical talent of the kingdom having been devoted for many generations to the 
care and development of the child voice. 


The most beautiful tone production and song interpretation is to be heard 
in the best English schools. The great musical competition movement which 
| has swept over Great Britain during the past twenty-five years has set a high 
standard of tone production and song interpretation and demonstrated the 
wonderful possibilities of children’s singing. 


ANI The educational value and far reaching significance of music in the puble 
wn schools of the United States, its comparatively recent introduction into the 
Hl curriculum as a serious study, and the tremendous strides the subject has taken 
Wg during the past twenty-five years—these and other significant facts are not 
All known to the people in general and are alike unknown to the musical profession. 
I Prior to the close of the Civil War musie was not taught in the publie schoo!s 
il of the United States except in a few isolated communities. Practically its en- 
Hi tire history is covered by the last fifty years although the remarkable, epoch 
making report of the Committee of the Boston Academy of Musie and its adop- 
y tion by the Boston School Board, was made in 1837. Not until 1864, however 
wn was music taught in the primary schools of Boston. 


Mi Under favorable conditions which include expert supervision, a trained 
A corps of teachers, superior material, and the support of Superintendent and 
y parents,—the result in any community after twenty-five or thirty years, are 
HT truly amazing. Only those who witness the marvelous progress of a generation 
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cil future of American singers and to the development of the art of singing in | 
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talent, often among children from the humblest homes. One’s greatest desire Vil 
is to find some way to give these talented children opportunity to develop this | 
talent. The widespread movement toward free musical education in the high 
schools will afford splendid opportunities for these specially gifted children. 
Courses in Melody and Harmony, Music History and Appreciation, violin classes, 
Piano Classes, Bands, Orchestras, Glee Clubs and Chorus in the high school are 
already a reality In many communities. 


Boston, New York City, Washington, D. C. and many other cities east and HA 
west have violin classes in the public schools practically free to all children. In All 
the grade schools of Oakland, Cal., there are twenty-nine bands and twenty-nine AN 
orchestras. To instruct these organizations the school board employs two teach- Hl 
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vears ago an inventory showed $138,870 worth of instruments owned by the WA 
pupils then enrolled. $10,000 had been expended by the schools for the pur- All 
chase of additional instruments which are loaned to the students without charge. | 


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f ach High School and provides courses in Harmony, Music Histor 1 Ay yr 
preciation in addition to the usual courses in music. Portland, Me., Atlanta, All| 
ya., and other cities have municipal or s and organists and programs arrangec Hh 
G 1 ot! ties | nicipal organs and organists and progra ged | 
especially for the children. | | 


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significant when it is known that during its entire history the subject has been | 
ignored and neglected by the state departments of education, and by school au- Hil 
thorities in general. Although music is now a regular subject in practically all | i 
the cities and larger towns in most of the States, and although from 10 to 20 HI 
minutes each day is given to music teaching in all grades, supposedly by the All 
orade teacher, only a very few states and cities provide any sort of syllabus, re- 
quire any preparation for teaching, or set any standard of qualifications for il 
the all important position of music supervisor. Even the Normal schools where il 
systematic preparation for teaching music should be universal, either ignore the A 
subject or provide a hopelessly inadequate’ and fragmentary training of the | | 
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HW vital element, the one factor which makes success possible, the preparation of Hy | 
| the teacher, is omitted. School music is growing faster than the supply of All 


properly equipped teachers. And herein les the greatest danger to its success. 
hl While musi¢ is a language, it 1S also an art-elusive, complex and delicate. In 
the hands of efficient teachers it is an inestimable boon to the children and 
homes of any community. Without intelligent supervision it cannot succeed, A 
alll and may be a positive menace, seriously impairing thousands of naturally y 
beautiful voices, blunting and debasing the musical sensibilities and worse than 
wasting the time and money expended. 


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tor who must train his corps of assistants and grade teachers, set and main- 
Hil tain the standard of tone production and song interpretation, conduct the 
Hi choruses, organize and train the glee clubs and orchestras, plan and often 
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| musicianship, better preparation and greater efficiency must prevail before Alli 
Hn music in the public schools can possibly conserve the interests of the 20,000,000 
| of school children in America. The demand for adequately trained teachers, 
especially men, for this profession is far greater than the supply. It is the most y 
promising and attractive field open to musically talented young men and women A 
with a college or normal training. The future success of music teaching in the 
public schools and to a large extent the future of music in America hinges on 
| the adequate training of large numbers of high class young men and women 

A who shall become leaders of school and community music. Collegiate insti- A 
| tutions in every state should establish adequate courses for the training of y 
Directors of Music. Every State should establish a minimum professional i 
| requirement for the supervisior and grade teacher of music, every Normal school 
IN and training school should require certain, definite elementary knowledge and y 
All skill on the part of the grade teacher. Al 


Only by such a policy can the time and money now expended be conserved 

HI and the musical welfare of the millions of children in the publie schools be 
A safeguarded. Music in the schools has come to stay, shall it be a means of de- 
All veloping the future American singers and players and composers, shall it y 
HAI be a blessed boon to all the people, rich and poor, bringing joy in participation 
and happiness in listening, conserving and protecting the singing voice and en- | 
riching the memory with a repertoire of song? Such it can be, provided an Hh 
‘All efficient, thoroughly trained director is given time, material equipment, and A 
| the support and co-operation of superintendent, teachers and patrons. 


HH The nation sorely needs the refining and home-making influence of music. 


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| through the country in the automobile, and cabaret show, the drifting to the 
MA saloon and the dance hall are all evidences of the unrest and over-excitement 


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evidence that there is something lacking in the inner life. We should possess y 


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and debasing paths. Legislation against social evils is comparatively futile. IA 
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can we rid the nation of the scourges which now ravage our musical life. We HAI 
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afflicted with its near relative and constant companion the ‘‘popular’’ song, with VA 
its silly, sentimental text and its cheap and tiresome music. All 
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nothing, nothing,’’ we still continue to sing words and musie that are conclu- I 
sive proof of poverty and depravity, both literary and musical. Fortunately the ll 
use of such music-literature ceases whenever a community is well advanced | 
along the road of musical culture and is given a proper musical diet. Here again am) 
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vood. The good musie will win out if given opportunity. The ‘‘O to be noth- HN 
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music as they read and understand the newspaper; musical talent, now dormant 
and undiscovered, will be found in the grades and will be encouraged and 
developed as a part of the regular high school curriculum. 


The school chorus and school orchestra will flourish along with violin, 
piano, and theory classes maintained by the school without additional expense 
to parent or pupil, thus opening the door of opportunity to the poor where the 
ereatest talent often exists. The home lfe will be enriched with a variety of 
musical activities in which the instruments of the symphony orchestra will play 
an important part alone with voice and the piano. 


Nearly every church will have its large and efficient chorus choir and 
there will be plenty of soloists in the town for all the choirs. The community 
orchestra, using the school building for rehearsal, will be constantly recruited 
from the school orchestra; father and son, mother and sister will find real joy 
in taking a real part in the performance of real music. The community chorus, 
also constantly recruited from the graduates of the high school, will unite 
with the community orchestra in giving public concerts. These concerts will 
be given in a fine municipal auditorium with its great organ, on which the 
municipal organist will give frequent recitals, practically free to all the people. 
Frequently the organist will arrange a special children’s program with solo- 
ists and music appealing especially to children. Each city will have its season 
of opera in English given by companies principally American and patronized 
not alone by people of wealth but by the general public. Crowning and closing 
the season will come the Musical Festival or Pageant in which Community 
Chorus and Orchestra, School children and general public will unite with 
trie civie spirit. 


A Rockfeller or Carnegie of Music will have made possible a great Na- 
tional Conservatory at Washington or elsewhere with endowment sufficient to 
assist in the education of the young American genius wherever found. Would 
that our National Government might establish such an institution, which like the 
Paris Conservatoire supported by the French Government, would develop 
American artists and American composers to be known and heard the world 
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The Training of the Teacher 


F a total of $750,000,000 spent annually for education in the United 
States, $220,000,000, according to the figures of an authority who has 
taken great pains to gather the statistics, is spent for musical education. 
This is nearly four times as much as for all the high schools and nearly 
three times as much as for all the universities and colleges. A fair question is, 
‘“Does the American public get as much for its money in the case of a musical 
education as in the others?’’ and a candid answer must be ‘‘No.’’ The trouble 
is largely because music teachers too often happen, they are not trained. The 
indifference of the faculties of the colleges and universities toward music in such 
institutions is largely due to the inadequate preparation of the teachers and the 
haphazardness of the courses. Hence, the training of the teacher is the most 


important problem before musical educators of our day. 
Such training should emphasize certain important factors: 


First, It is a teacher who is to be trained, not a performer, composer or 
critic; therefore, the training should be such as would produce a teacher. 


Second, The private tutor system is in the main a source of weakness. Small 
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evidenced by the great conservatories of Europe. Also, it is rather absurd to 
expect one teacher to take care of the entire musical training of a student. The 
work should be divided among a number of specialists co-operating in some way. 
Here, of course, the conservatory or school of music is superior to the private 


teacher. 


Third, the general education of a music teacher should be at least equiva- 
lent to a high-school trainmeg, with a thorough knowledge of at least one musi- 
cal specialty and the general theoretical courses. It is, moreover, exceptional 
to find a first-class music teacher whose knowledge of music is confined to one 
specialty. As the physician is first a general practitioner and then a spec- 
jlalist, so the musician ought to have an all around foundation upon which to 


build a specialization. 


Fourth, A successful music teacher must fit into the community and work 
for the highest good of the community. A certain amount of free work for the 
eood of the community is inevitable. 


Fifth, The training of the teacher must conform to universal educational 
standards and must prepare for co-operative service with a reasonable regard 
at all times for the rights and standards of others. 


Sixth, This means, more study and a broader curriculum, including a 
considerable amount of general culture, such as languages, psychology and peda- 
gogy. Moreover, frequent examinations of an impersonal nature are iImpera- 


tive. 


Seventh, The training of the teacher is not complete without attention to 
ways and means, such as studio ethies, program building, selection and grading 
of material, good and bad publicity, ete. 


Eighth, Growth comes only thru constant change and adaptation to environ- 
ment. In stagnation is death. The new thing is not necessarily the best, but 
neither is the old. Teachers must show more ability to face new problems, 
examine the new artists and composers and judge them on their merits. 


Lastly, The teacher must be trained for good citizenship. It is expected 
of every good citizen that he bear his share of the community’s burden, not 
only of his own particular work, but in everything which tends toward the 
building up of a good constructive teacher. He must be in and of the com- 
munity at all times and capable of meeting other people on their own ground. 
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The Musical Man in the Community 


EK he professional or amateur the musical man in the community is too 

often reckoned a light weight, a negligible factor, a bit of life’s froth. 

Von Bulow once declared a tenor to be a disease. If partial musicianship 

can be thus caustically appraised by one of the elect that is only suggestive 

of the scorn with which the average solid man sets in his place the man whose 
open interests turn toward the arts, and especially toward music. 


So far as this judgment is merely the contempt that ignorance always 
bestows on what is incomprehensible it may easily be overlooked; but if, as we 
are compelled to admit, there is reason for such an estimate, no earnest musician 
should refuse to face the situation. We have much need to ask ourselves in all 
sobriety whether we deserve this stigma, and especially whether it is possible to 
avoid it,—to make the musical man not only valuable but also honored and 
prized by the business and the professional men of his community. 


T am inclined to think that on the whole the most marvelous fact about 
modern life is the interdependence of all its members. Even the lowliest dweller 
in the remotest district to-day gets his canned food, his ready-to-wear cloth- 
ing, and his canned musie from the great beyond. The whole round globe and 
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| give. I believe that there are few laborers existing today who are not con- VA 
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| the poet’s phrase ‘‘Life is real and life is earnest’’ into the measure of a man. | 
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the life of his community will be reckoned of importance. It is, of course, in- A 
| | evitable for the man on the street to assume that he who can both demand and | 
II get big returns for his work has in fact contributed the most to his fellows. | 
| y) Perhaps, even, in the long run this may be a correct assumption. Plainly, too, it Nd 
All would seem that the business of setting in order the essential activities of life lll 
Mi will appear more valuable than that of bringing diversion and recreation. From | 
| the point of view of a producer, then, the musician stands very naturally in | 
lly subordinate relation to life’s activities. For only a small proportion of people iY 
y | srasp vitally the value of charm in existence. Still fewer hold creators of beauty | 
HA to be of more worth than creators of estates or of business. It is not merely that i 
Hh the musician is working in an unknown medium; he has withdrawn himself | 
| y apparently from the normal activities of man, he has refused to bear his share UA 
(| | of life’s burdens, he is an idler. Often he has not even the excuse of being an (| 
| “dle rich’’, of whom it can be claimed that ancestral work won for him cessa- | 
tien of toil. On the contrary he must turn aside from his true labor to help ) 
A amuse the rich and teach their children accomplishments, when he should be A 
All creating, or re-creating, the wonder of beauty in musical tone. And this by- l 
| product of his life, which he does merely in order to live, often with much dis- | 
) taste, 1s accepted by others as his main purpose, and contributes to the low | 
nh estimate they find for him. yh 
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y that he has not wholly appreciated, for reasons which add to the verdict, name- y 
A ly, because in the first place he is so absorbed in his art life as to be almost un- All 
aware that he is in the least degree objectionable, and in the second place he 
| feels that it is the unmusical person who is himself defective, inferior. In other 
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barbarian are often more contemptuous and cynical than that of the solid busi- 
ness man in regard to him. Were he in the majority the community would A 
undergo a change of heart very astounding to many influential citizens. The y 
least among them might become the greatest, the poor might be both regarded 
and become in fact the rich. | 
This change would, however, be based upon the same principle of com- All 
munity lfe of which we have spoken. Still the challenge of a man would re- 
main measured by his usefulness, his contribution to the world. Secretary 
Lane’s remark, ‘‘I do not measure my Americanism by what this country has A 
done for me, but by what I have done for it,’? may serve as a statement in re- (| 
gard to music and life. Once be it demonstrated that the call of beauty is su- 
preme, that its presence is essential to life, then the creators and purveyors of 
beauty step to the front as valuable and important citizens. The unspoken but CG 
insistent question of civilization has found a new answer. For then the musi- { 
cian contributes of the best and will receive the honor that was accorded to the 
old musician-priests of Egypt, who stood next the king in dignity and power. ) 
But our observation of the social organism is not quite complete when we (| 
see that value is reckoned in terms of service. It is also reckoned in terms of 
interest. The man who withdraws his hand and mind from any vital share 
in the activities and pursuits of others may lose much when his own contribu- va 
tion is assessed. I will look with kindly eye at what you are doing if you and 
I have first met in some common duty or pleasure outside of the ordinary 
round of our tasks. ) 
Just here the musician is often at fault through very absorption in his (| 
own delight. He has allowed himself to limit his interests until he has cut away 
that common ground of mutual glow which should hold him to his fellows. He 
is in his community,but not of it. I have yet to know the musician who is active rh 
in politics, in social service, in the city chamber of commerce, ete. To the call | 
to such activities he is apt to oppose the mere passive weight of his busy, self- 
centered life. Music is so vast a field, so entrancing an occupation. Indeed, it y 
is not at all uncommon to find the musician absorbed in his own little phase of y 
music so completely that he has no ears for other kinds of music or for other 
musicians. He has become an homunculus, a dwarf, even in his own field. I 
am frequently amazed to find pianists who see nothing of interest in the organ, y 
organists who would not go out of their way to hear chamber music, singers V 
who really never hear even a song,—only a voice line, and listen to music in 
terms of the star who is shooting at the moment. With such a narrowed hori- 
zon as to music itself it is not surprising to find the self-centered, small view HY 
in other things. And they have their reward in being allowed to-function as y 
priests in their separate cults, somewhat misunderstood, quite ignored by the 
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must perforce elevate to a supreme importance. Were this his true position My” 
| and due meed it might well make us humble and content to let the less said . ll 
Hl be the better. But if, as I am convinced, music is as significant to man as it | 
HI is well nigh universal, no question can be of more importance for the musician thi 
UA to consider than how he can make himself of the utmost value to his com- A 
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(| A musician, to be a valuable man in the community, must understand r 
Hl the real nature of the musical experience, and estimate sanely his own capac- HI 
th ity and that of others in creating or reproducing music. He must have a 
vA proper judgment of the important things of life and know when the supreme vi 
CH moments for each are due; and he must enter into the whole adventure of Hl 
MI life with genuine and unabated enthusiasms. | | 
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Wil It is not at all enough, in my estimation, that a person ‘‘love music’’ and Hill 
| be eager to glut his fill of it and pour it out for all to drink. The musical 
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All highways. The people who look upon music as an emotional orgy and con- (| | 
sider temperament equivalent to abandonment to the frenzy of tone-excitation HH 
| have lowered this great medium of art expression to the level of selfish, sen- | 
nt suous intoxication. At its best such a view makes of music a mere entertain- Vn 
ill ment, a diversion. At its worst it becomes the opium of an unreal fantasy, | 
Hl a disease of the sense of hearing, a hypnotic hallucination. The music ealled | 
A for by such a conception is sure to tend to the condition of the eggs a store il) 
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want them bad.’’ 
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Hil euide the painter, the sculptor, to his material and reassure him as to its | 
Hil worth. The inhaling of the breath of life in vibrant tone must ever renew MI 
Hil) the blood of the living organism in music and prepare it for its onward march. \j 
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Al defy any man not to like serious orchestral music if he could sit next the | 
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work of musical art has to be developed by training. The musical man in the 
community ean do far better service by explaiming his enthusiasms, than by 
forcing them upon his fellow men; by endeavoring to find out what they do 
not hear and calling their attention to this with real confidence that if they 
hear they will appreciate. I have known musicians to crawl into their holes 
with querulous complaint that nobody in their community cares for good 
music, totally ignorant of the fact that their plaint only damns themselves. 
What after all is the mission of the musical man in the community if not to 
hold fast to that which is good, and with unwearied persistence and sincere 
friendliness explain that it is good, and why it is good, and what enlargement 
of the spirit can come to him who will feed upon it? 


I like to reeall a remark of that Nestor among American musical educa- 
tors, Professor Albert A. Stanley of the University of Michigan. Once at a 
conference, in reply to a query as to how to arouse an interest in good music, 
with his beaming smile he replied, ‘‘I have always found that other people 
are interested in the things that I am interested in.’? You in Lockport have 
in Mr. Van De Mark an asset of genuine overflow of enthusiasm that does 
much to compel you to hear with his ears. But I make no doubt that many a 
musical man in your community could serve you much more than he does by 
opening the ears of his neighbor to his own enthusiasms. You know what is 
fine about Sousa, you like DeKoven, why should you not like Debussy? Bach 
drives his chariot with horses abreast; Mozart often tandem; while Richard 
Strauss speeds his auto; Schoenberg loops the loops in a monoplane. American 
music, too, what does it stand for? Not, ‘‘is it good? *’ Of that we are con- 
vinced. But ‘‘what is its excellence?’’ 


The musical man in the community one finds to be a person acquainted 
with a special literature called music, art-music, if you will,—but a literature 
marvelously highly developed, with its periods and styles, that represent the 
white heat of many souls down the ages. It is his privilege to bring these 
rare ones to us commoner folk and by making us acquainted to enrich our lives. 
If he can understand how vital a mission that is he will find himself a constant 
and stimulating teacher. Samuel Crothers in a recent essay makes a character 
say, ‘‘To be interesting a thought must pass through the mind of an interest- 
ing person. In the process something happens to it. It is no longer an in- 
organic substance, but it is in such form that it can easily be assimilated by 
other minds.’’ 


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in the limited sense of the professional. We suffer much both in religion and 
art from the professional idea. The clergyman, that professional Christian 
among us, is often put to severe straits to combat the notion that pure religion 
undefiled belongs to his special class which is apart from the world. Teaching 
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enthusiast is a teacher. The amateur is oft times doubly so. 


I have said that the musical man in the community, to be of greatest ser- 
vice, needs to understand the worth of his subject and his own limitations in 
regard to it. 


It is equally true that he must have a proper view of the whole complex 
we call life and must pursue the great adventure with unabated love of it. I 
would have stated this in other fashion by declaring that the musician ought 
to have a liberal education,—be a cultivated man—,were it not for the fact 
that so frequently education is assumed to be a mere matter of going to school 
and college. Strongly as I should urge most young people with musical in- 
stincts to get all the schooling possible, I am well aware that the root of 
education hes rather in a point of view. I have known men with but the 
rudiments of book knowledge that held so sane an estimate of wherein life 
consists, so keen an interest in all legitimate doings, so admirable an under- 
standing of when to sink their own personality into the background, and 
when to contribute its warmth and radiant overflow, that one felt them to be 
possessed of that elusive thing we eall culture. If such men are more often met 
among the people with book lore, the so-called educated classes, it is in spite 
of a tendency toward intellectual snobbery, that frequently appears after the 
training of the schools which removes one from real life almost as much as 
does the self-centering of art and music. This I would not desire the musical 
man to seek after; but rather the true education which widens the circle of 
one’s interests and refuses to stand aside from any real thing. Such a view 
prevents him from being that truly abominable being,—the musical bore. It 
is not that the bore says fatuous things, but he has no sense of when to stop. 
Like the rhinoceros, he charges right on in his nearsighted path undeterred by 
obstacles, unlimited by anything but the final collapse of his own motor im- 
pulse. If the bore could understand and thrill to other life than his he would 
no longer hold the stage at inopportune times; he would no longer be the 
bore. The musician should take to heart the lesson of life which he may learn 
from a study of composers themselves. It is said that the difference between 
style and manner is largely a question of the size of one’s vocabulary of 
thought. When one is forced to use the same expressions over and over the 
result is mannerism; with the larger range of expression there grows the dis- 
tinction of style. The musical man needs to cultivate a love for many things 
outside the range of his special subject, and so to draw near to those persons 
whose special interest lies in these other experiences. Let him cease to fall 
into the manner that marks him a musician and gather in place thereof the 
style of a cultured life. Above all let him live deeply and eagerly. There is 
a difference between emotionalism and enthusiasm, as there is a difference 
between sentimentality and sentiment. As little room as there is in modern 
life for sentimentality and emotionalism, so much the more need is there for 
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which is the measure of a man and from which his beloved art can gain most. 


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found now far more frequently among us than formerly. Fifty years ago that 
a son of good family in America should enter the musical profession was rare 
and to be regarded as a descent. Now many of our brightest young composers, 


performers, and teachers come from the colleges and from cultivated families. 
Fifty years ago musicians entered society only to sell their wares. To-day it is 
not unusual to have professionals performing in private homes with amateurs 


more gifted than they, both men and women. Fifty years ago music in Amer- 


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If these statements are a little too sweeping they none the less suggest a 
real change. We are much nearer to the point where the musical man can 


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Il very few realize. It took America about four hundred years to 
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| | native singers and vocal art was in embrio. 
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HH Clara Louise Kellogg, who sang Gilda in the Academy of Music, New York, that 
| | year. Then came Annie Louise Cary (1867), Minnie Hauk (1868), Tom Karl 
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Wd Eames and Sybil Sanderson came upon the scene. 


Hil The world was probably too interested in other things to note the almost 
Hi meteoric rise of American artists during the nineties, but turned aside to Jet 
them pass, because they demonstrated that they knew whither they were going 
ana were traveling towards the goal steadily and faithfully. They, too, were 
too busy and too interested to observe that the world turned aside to let them 
pass and were unconscious of the fact that homage was being paid them. 
Strange as it may seem, the vast majority of American singers have 
chosen an operatic career, in spite of the fact that opera in America has always 
- been dominated by foreigners and that there was little chance of their ever 
getting an opportunity to appear in their own country. However, American 
‘‘pyush’’ soon made itself felt and, at this period, we find American singers as 
members of opera companies both here and abroad. 


One of the immutable laws of Nature is that water seeks its own level, and 
its corollary,—that talent lkewise seeks its own level. Nature’s gifts cannot 
rise above the capacity of the individual upon whom they have been bestowed, 
but may even fall below it. The level therefore which talent attains, furnishes 
All a basis by which it may be estimated. The twentieth century established the 
| fact that America had the voices and that ultimately American singers would 
HN play an important part in opera all over the world. 


We have but to recall many names familiar to opera-goers of to-day, in 
order to establish this truth,—Mary Garden, Geraldine Farrar, Louise Homer, 
Edythe Walker, Bernice de Pasquale, Suzanne Adams, Alice Nielsen, Lila 
Robeson, Anna Case, Carolina White, Helen Stanley, Maude Fay, Elizabeth 
Amsden. Mabel Garrison, Edith Mason, Vera Curtis, Marcia van Dresser, 
All Sophie Braslau, Clarence Whitehill, Ricardo Martin, Robert Blass, Herbert 
il Witherspoon, Putnam Griswold, Paul Althouse, Henri Scott, . Allen 
HI Hinkley, Arthur Middleton, Florence Easton and Francis Maclennan, 
A all of whom have been factors in operatic productions. This season the Met- 
A ropolitan Opera roster contains the names of some twenty Americans, while 
All the Chicago and Boston opera companies have many more. 


HH In the concert field, there is Florence Hinkle, Julia Heinrich, Lucy Gates, 
HN Marie Kaiser, Marcella Craft, Florence Macbeth, Christine Miller, Henrietta 
Wakefield, Florence Mulford, Idelle Patterson, May Peterson, Grace Kerns, 
Margaret Keyes, Margaret Harrison, Lambert Murphy, Janet Spencer, Evan 
Williams, Loretta del Valle, Reed Miller, Andrea Sarto, Oscar Seagle, Charles 
HAI W. Clark, George Hamlin, Philip Spooner, Frank Pollock, Cecil Fanning, to 
A mention but a few. As time passes, some of these names will make musical 
history, while new stars will be in the ascendant, but time can never dim the 
Ml past glory of the work accomplished, or remove the milestones set up along the 
HH operatic highway in America. 


Fame, the philosophers say, is ephemeral. But it matters not so long as 
if encamps upon one’s doorstep before Charon calls to ferry us across the Styx. 
HI Fame is useful only during life. It is a good asset, but a poor legacy. It 
HA serves a purpose however in that it compels us to seek it and in so doing, creates 
LIA opportunity. All honor and praise to the pioneers in American art and to those 
(il who have aided, and are still aiding, in bringing about the destiny of America 
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All standing of any given locality may be determined by the number and 
quality of its choral organizations. The existence of a large nuriber of 
ill efficient choral bodies in a community suggests the presence of a corre- Il 
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AN It naturally follows that personal participation in the performance of a great I 
Hl work is unquestionably of greater value to the music lovers than mere atten- Hi 
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Sunday, September 30th, 1917 a 


Afternoon 


3:00—ORGAN RECITAL 


THE APOLLO QUARTET OF BOSTON UA 

WILLIAM WHITTAKER, tenor; LYMAN HEMENWAY, tenor; AU 
JOHN SMALLMAN, baritone; ALEX LOGAN, bass. 

PRAYER REV. H. F. ZWICKER 

ScriprurRE Lesson REV. S. J. CLARKSON | 

Soro HARRIET STERLING HEMENWAY, Contralto A 

INTRODUCTION OF THE SPEAKER A 


REV. G. A. PAPPERMAN 

AppRESS—*“‘War and Ethics” | 

EDWARD HOWARD GRIGGS 

Soro META CHRISTENSEN, Contralto . A 
ANNOUNCEMENTS 
APOLLO QUARTET 

BENEDICTION REV. M. G. L. RIETZ 


The Auditorium 


7:30—ORGAN RECITAL 
APOLLO QUARTET 
INVOCATION REV. B. M. SWAN 


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ScRIPTURE LESSON REV. C. P. COLLETT All 
SoLo BERTHA LANSING RODGERS | 

PRAYER REV. J. WEBSTER BAILEY } 
SoLo HELEN ALEXANDER, Soprano Hy 
INTRODUCTION OF THE SPEAKER fy 


REV. H. F. ZWICKER f 

AppDRESS—‘‘The Religion of the Indian” Hl 
DR. CHARLES EASTMAN HHI 

Soto VIOLA ALBRIGHT, Viclinist | 
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SoLo LUCY MAY VAN DE MARK, Contralto r 
BENEDICTION Pastor of St. Peter’s Chureh | 


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7:30—OrGAN RECITAL fl 
Soro OLIVE NEVIN, Soprano | 
INVOCATION REV. 8. J. CLARKSON 
PSALTER—Selected A 
Soro T. E. THOMAS, Tenor All 


ScRIPTURE LESSON 
Pastor of the East Avenue Congregational Church 
APOLLO QUARTET 


INTRODUCTION OF THE SPEAKER A 
REV. G. A. PAPPERMAN A 


Appress—“The Relation of Music to Religion” 

DR. W. PIERSON MERRILL, of New York 
PRAYER REV. G. A. JAMESON 
ANNOUNCEMENTS 
APOLLO QUARTET y 
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10:00—ADDRESS 
PROF. W. H. HOERRNER 


10:30—RECITAL 


MAUD TUCKER DOOLITTLE, Pianist 


10:45—His Master’s Idea” 
(Second in a series of six lectures) 
PROF. S. C. SCHMUCKER 


11:45—REcITAL 
ETHEL HAGUE REA, Soprano 


Afternoon Session 


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2:00—‘*Community Music” 
ALFRED W. HALLAM 


2:45—RECITAL 
ELINOR WHITTEMORH, Violinist 
3:00—‘What is Worth While in the Fine Arts” 


HON. WOODBRIDGE N. FERRIS 


4:00—RECITAL 
HARRIET STORY MACFARLANE, Soprano 


Evening Concert 
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CLEF CLUB of Buffalo 
ALFRED JURY, Conductor 


SOLOISTS 


GRETCHEN MORRIS, Soprano 
CHARLOTTE PEEGE, Contralto 
EARLE TUCKERMAN, Baritone 
HARVEY HINDERMYER, Tenor 


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MABLE CORLEW SMIDT, Soprano 


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PROF. J. LAWRENCE ERB 
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| HARRIET McCONNELL, Contralto | 
| 10:30—Reminiscences” 
MRS. ETHELBERT NEVIN (Wife of the late composer) 
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MARTHA ATWOOD BAKER, Soprano 


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RAFAELO DIAZ, Tenor 


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HHI GERTRUDE LYONS, Seprano 


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COMMUNITY CHORUS, of Erie, Pa. 
Henry B. VINCENT, Conductor 
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T. A. THOMAS, Tenor 
MELVILLE CLARK, Harpist 


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musicians who will be in our midst; | 
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No contemporary recital-singer has a larger following of charmed listeners that Mme. 
Gluck and her excellent choice of songs plays a vital part in her success. Those in this 
volume she has gathered from many sources; but they all serve to display the suave lyricism, 
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Pluck—Courage—And The American Artist 


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T is courage that enables men to win the battles of the business world. It 
is discouragement that makes success impossible. If you are afraid of 
any particular thing, that fear begins to minimize the effect of your effcrts 
the moment it takes possession of the mind. To begin an undertaking with 

fear of failure is a reasonable assurance that failure will follow. 

It is this courage that has enabled me to make a national reputation for 
the Lockport Concert Course. No shadow of doubt has ever crossed by vision 
as to the future results. Discouragements, yes, but I have gone to sleep each 
night with one fixed purpose in mind and strengthened it from day to day. 
The bold, adventurous men who blazed the pathway of civilization across the 
continent to the shores of the ocean had none of the ordinary incentives to high 
endeavor, but they wrought nobly for their country and their kind. 

For thirty years, Lockport had been musically dead. Noble hearted men 
and women stcod loyally by the Home for the Friendless, Odd Fellow’s Home, 
Hospital Association, Y. M. C. A. and other worthy enterprises needing their 
help, but good music in any form was not encouraged or supported. 


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Ih dark forest of indifference and lethargy to the light of appreciation and en- 

Hh joyment of good music. 

HI Good music! What can be better in the human life? God pity the man 

WN who does not appreciate the songs of the old home, that call up memories, be- 

mil eause they are good and clean and help us to do a little thinking with our 

(ll hearts. Prominent women told me that the town was not musical. Hard- headed 
I business men refused their support and suggested that I turn my attention to 
| something that meant money to me. Discouragements came at every turn. 

Nd Though the people of Lockport are possessed of usual wealth, none would 

Vill guarantee a larger amount than the price of a box or season ticket. 

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dark and you are ready to quit, that is just the time not to quit. The turning 
will be in your favor. By the constant and steady growth of my yearly 
American Series Book, I have been enabled to continue the work. 

By giving full course tickets to the local business men who engage space, 
it gave me the opportunity of showing them the value and enjoyment of good 
music. They were frank to tell me that the artists singing in the foreign tongue 
bored them, that they wanted something they could understand. 


What is needed in the concert game to-day is more interested men. In a 
small city successful concerts are impossible without them. For me the prob- 
lem was solved and the fight won by giving them the American artist. There 
have been no regrets. 


Yesterday, the women were my chief supporters, to-day, the men are 
also interested; yesterday the women, many of them, came alone while the 
men spent the evening at their clubs; to-day, they come together. My subscrip- 
tion list has grown from 600, the best that I could do for the big foreign artist, 
to 1200 for the American artist. 

To my fellow worker, I would say, You are doing invaluable work 
which is unremunerative in the sense that it’s value is out of all proportion 
to the material reward. You can only hope, continue to work and remember 
that honor lies not in never falling, but in rising every time you fall. You are 
dealing with the American public, a big hearted people who admire pluck and 
courage. Pin your faith to the American artist. In advising this I do not 
assume that which is incapable of proof, experience has been my teacher. It 
is your business to build your following, to educate the people of your city 
to an appreciation of good music for it’s. worth, and remember that con- 
structive work is the essence of concert giving if you would build for the future. 
Music should be the common meeting place for all. It is an absolute necessity 
for the poor as well as the rich; for the lowest as well as the highest. It’s 
message and solace are for the simplest minded as well as the most erudite. 
Like oil on troubled waters, it helps to smooth out the rough places in life. 
When we come to realize and understand this, music will cease to be the priv- 
ilege of the few and become the divine right of the many. Life is meant to be 
beautiful and enjoyable for us all. The Creator made us, at least most of us, 
with the love of the beautiful in our hearts. There is no more satisfying or 
lasting enjoyment in life than that to be derived from listening to the best in 
music. 

In conclusion let me say that the American public must be taught to ap- 
preciate it’s own artists of excellence and this teaching cannot be accomplish- 
ed more effectively and directly than by hving examples, or strong convincing 
comparisons. Public opinion draws it’s conclusions largely from comparisons, 
and in this connection the local manager can do more to help worthy American 
artists come into their own than any other power in the musical life of the coun- 
try. The scales of justice could be balanced if every concert giver would place 
the American artist on absolutely equal terms with the foreign artists. The same 
faith manifested on the part of the manager would take possession of the 
American audiences and they would receive their own artists in a fairer 
spirit. It would accomplish more towards giving the American artists a better 
chance than all that has ever been accomplished in his behalf. 


It gives me great pleasure to be associated with the prominent men and 
women who are instrumental in bringing to Lockport, this season, the National 


Seven Day American Musical Convention and Chautauqua. 
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Here is the land where music is to find 

New soul and mind. 

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Something to make its greatness still more great. 
Be still and wait. 


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Winner in Ohio in contest held by National Federation of Musical Clubs 
in April, 1915. 


_ ‘‘Hiss Helen Alexander has a beautiful voice of sympathetic and harmonious timbre. 
She uses it with sufficient school and successfully colors it. 
—New York il Giornale Italiano, November 3rd, 1914. 
“In last night’s Elijah, Miss Helen Alexander carried off the honors of the evening 
in ‘Hear Ye Israel.’ Miss Alexander’s work will be long remembered.’’ 
—Youngstown Vindicator, May Ist, 1916. 
‘‘Miss Helen Alexander was the Soloist at the Mid-Winter Alumni Association of 
the Guilmant Organ School in the Old Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church. Her fine 
soprano yoice used discreetly won her much applause and several encores.’’ 
Musical America, February 28, 1916. 
‘“Miss Helen Alexander has a voice of considerable power and range which she used 
with facility and taste.’’ —Toledo, November 19, 1915. 
‘*Miss Helen Alexander who possesses a voice of most agreeable quality and refine- 
ment was best heard in ‘Hear Ye Israel’ while she was a welcome participant in the 
many vocal combinations.’’ —Columbus, June 15, 1915. 
‘‘Too much praise cannot be given to Miss Helen Alexander, her clear, sweet tones 
rising to new heights and bringing new inspirations.’’ 
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church choir path, and one of the most promising tenors this country has yet 
produced gives more credit to his choir masters for their real interest taken in 
his work than his best known voice teacher. 

“The church choir is the most wonderful musical organization in America, 
and I don’t care how small the church is or how far it is from the railroad or 
post-office. Who knows but from that little choir may some day come a 
voice that will hold the music world spell bound.” 

Such is the opinion of Paul Althouse, the American tenor. Mr. Althouse 
has been singing in church choirs since he was six years of age. When ten he 
was soprano soloist, in the Christ Church choir, Reading, Pa., and at the age 
of fourteen he started to sing tenor. 

From that time until the present day Paul Althouse has never given up 
his chureh work. In spite of all his operatic and concert engagements this 
young American tenor still clings to his first love—the good old-fashioned 


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‘‘Made a profound impression on her audience.’’—Peanifield ‘‘Leader.’’ 


‘*Miss Phyllida Ashley, a Californian of whose gifts we may feel proud.’’ 
—San Francisco ‘‘Examiner.’’ 


‘*Miss Ashley is essentially a temperamental player. Her touch is caressing in 
tender moods and vigorous when the occasion demands.’’ 
—Pacific Coast ‘‘Musical Review.’’ 


‘*A pianist of distinguished gifts and an interpreter of rare intelligence, enabling 
her to reproduce works not to be attempted by any but virtuosi.’’ 
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‘Not only her sympathetic interpretations but also her marvelous and unusual con- 
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Singers are many, musicians few; when the two merge in one person a rare 
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Baker in the two seasons past, have considered her expressional gift in 

song and her musicianship to be unusual. Nature, dealing kindly with 
her, has been aided by an insistent ambition. To a soprano voice, ample in 
range and size, warm and emotional in color, Mrs. Baker adds intelligence, 
imagination, and a communicating personal charm. 

Whether as interpreter of widely contrasting types of songs in her dis- 
tinctive recital programs, as soloist with various ensemble groups of Boston 
Symphony Orchestra players, or as soprano of the First Parish Church, 
Brookline, Martha Atwood-Baker, recognized as a rising young artist, has 
given pleasure by an uncommon timbre of voice, a gracious presence, telling 
powers as an inter preter, and the ability to penetr ate the heart of a song, to 
recreate and bear it to her hearers, a thing of quickened and moving beauty. 

Herself a skilled accompanist, Mrs . Baker has made a feature of appear- 
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“The Singer of Dedicated Songs” 
Mme Buckhout has a voice silver in its clarity and golden in its quality—New York 
“*Evening Mail.’’ 


Mme. Buckhout has an exquisite voice and a charming manner.—New York 
“Heralds: 


Mme. Buckhout sang three songs and an Aria. The audience which filled the hall 
was enthusiastic in its applause.—New York ‘‘Tribune.’’ 


Mme. Buckhout disclosed a voice of attractive quality.—Chicago, Ill., ‘‘Herald.’’ 


Mme. Buckhout is a soprano of considerable sense of style and her voice has good 
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ETA CHRISTENSEN is one of New York’s well known contralto singers. 
M She has been educated entirely in America and is a pupil of Eleanor 
McLellan, who has been responsible for the success of more singers 
than any New York teacher. 

Miss Christensen has a contralto voice of rare beauty and power of 
unusual range for an alto. Her great success in the concert and oratorio field 
can readily be understood, as her winning personality immediately makes her 
at home with the coldest audience. She sings with much variety in taste and 
sentiment and with a voice of more than unusual range and evenness, as well 
as rare charm and grace in coloring her interpretations. 

She is the contralto soloist in one of New York’s most desirable churches. 
She has been engaged for the Lockport, N. Y., Festival of 1917, and will 
present a programme of unusual interest. 

She has recently sung with Sam Franko in his concert of old music and 
has been re-engaged for his next recital. 


Miss Christensen has an alto voice of splendid range and purity of quality. One 
seldom hears an alto of even quality such as hers. Her rendering of the Giaconda 
aria was thrilling. —Trov. N. Y., Record. 


Her voice is used with much discretion and shows careful training, 
Albany Ns Ya ress: 
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the text and gave each word with perfect clearness. If New York made a lion of 
Ludwig Wullner several years ago for his compelling delineations of German Lieder, 
local music-lovers should bestow equal honor on Mr. Clark for his vital interpretations 
of our native music.’’—New York American. 

‘“‘Again gave cause for enjoyment. His diction was excellent, his style polished and 
his voice full and resonant.’’—New York Times. 


‘“‘An artist whose powers of interpretation and whose diction are both unusual. 
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and shade. Warmly received hy a large audience.’’—New York Tribune. 

‘Even in his first two groups ‘Absent,’ by Wyman, and Homer’s ‘Sheep and the 
Lambs’ had to be repeated, and in fact several others could easily have been sung 
again. He can make almost any song he sings worth the hearing.’’—New York Sun. 


‘“‘A big, resonant voice. A master of the art of song.’’—New York Herald. 


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were attended by more than 15,000 people. Dir. Central N. Y. Music Festival 
Assn., 1912, since sec.; mem. N. Y. State Music Teachers’ Assn.; silver medal, 
EXxpn. Turin, Italy, 1911. Mason. Clubs; Masonie Temple, Citizens’, Rotary, 
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At Aeolian Hall, Monday afternoon, December 4, Maude DeVoe made her first 
New York appearance, impressing everyone with the beauty of her voice and the 
sincerity of her art. Miss DeVoe has an excellent voice which has been trained to 
much flexibility and which possesses a freshness which is altogether charming. Her 
songs were interpreted with marked intelligence and with a piquancy which was thor- 
oughly delightful.—Musical Courier, December 14, 1916. 


Maude DeVoe, soprano, sang a well selected program of songs in German, French 
and English at Aeolian Hall. There were some old Italian and German airs on her 
program. She has a fresh young voice, and it was evident yesterday that she gave her 
audience much pleasure.—New York Morning Telegraph, December 5, 1916 


Maude DeVoe gave a song recital at Aeolian Hall yesterday afternoon. While 
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In Mr. Hindermyer the audience heard one of the best known interpretators of 
oratorio music in this country. Possessing an unusually clear and strong tenor, Mr. 
Hindermyer’s enunciation and the ease with which he gave his various numbers showed 
his mastery of his art. His method was simple, but the distinction with which he 
pronounced every syllable and the infection he put in his voice made it truly remark- 
able. ‘‘Ye People Rend Your Hearts’’ was his opening solo, and in this and in his 
following numbers he fully sustained the first impression he made. 

—The Newburg, N. Y., Journal. 


MESSIAH 


Mr. Hindermyer possesses a voice of unusual sweetness, and his rendition of the 
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reputation for herself in Europe, has been the work of Leila Holterhoft, 

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name is not entirely applicable, as, with the exception of seeing, she is in full 
possession of her faculties. 

Already as a child Leila developed a boundless love for the piano, and 
would sit for hours playing. She declares that she always felt that the piano 
was her house, and the keys were the families, but not until she reached the 
age of twelve was she permitted to study singing. She later went to Paris, 
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who gave her a training in the old Italian works Next she went to Berlin, 
where she studied repertoire and harmony with the American composer, 
Stillman Kelly. 

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M ARGARET JAMIESON was born in Grand Rapids, Mich. At a very 


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sons were taken from her mother; afterwards she was placed under the 
instruction of a local teacher of ability. Her first public appearance was made 
at the age of eight years. She later studied in Milwaukee, Wis., and in 
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the final Commencement program. 

After graduation from Oberlin she studied one season with Rafael Joseffy 
in New York and has been with Sigismend Stojowski for the last three years. 
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‘“‘MESSIAH’’ WITH THE MONONGAHELA (PA.) CHORUS. 

‘‘Mr. Richard Knotts, the celebrated Pittsburgh baritone, who has a reputation 
from coast to coast, for his able interpretation of oratorio, scored a great success here 
last night. In this work he stands pre-eminent. It gives his superb voice and dramatic 
ability a large opportunity. The distinct clearness of enunciation was very satisfying.’ 

—Monongahela Republican. 


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‘‘Mr. Knotts scored a decided success in ‘‘The Oreation.’’ His large dramatic 
voice in this dignified, reverent role, was shown to great advantage.’’ 
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foreign musical education. 

A few short years ago Madame Kraft went abroad to finish her wel! begun musical education. As a pupil 
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her success abroad. 

Then as quietly as she had slipped away, Madame Kraft returned home again. 

The same sweetness, gentleness and grace that pervade her personality have set their mark upon Madame 
Kraft’s playing. Musical feeling and sympathy of touch combine with her technique which is faultless. She 
plays with a sureness of conviction that is seen in only a very few of the foreign-born artists. As she sits at 
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Gertrude Lyons 
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Born in America BHducated in America Touring America 
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The world-renowned organist writes as follows: 
Washington. D. C., February 29, 1916. 

At my recital last night in Saint John’s Episcopal Church I was ably assisted by 
Gertrude Lyons, the excellent soprano of this city, in two well-known arias from 
Handel’s ‘‘Messiah’’ and ‘‘Samson.’’ While her work was admirable throughout, yet 
her phrasing, diction, poise and interpretation call for special commendation, and it is 
with great pleasure that I testify to her musicianly qualifications. 

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Committees and Societies will make no mistake by engaging the services of Miss 
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voice. I heartily indorse her interpretation of the classics as well as the lighter songs 
and ballads, she having appeared with me in Recitals of my own compositions and 
always with eminent success. Lucky, indeed, is the composer whose songs Miss 
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Very sincerely, KURT SCHINDLER. 


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ENIUS so called is mainly an affair of energy, only a little talent tacked 
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faith,—faith in his ability to perform whatever he has undertaken. 


On the 9th day of November, thirteen years ago, two men dropped quietly 
into Lockport. 


For years these men had been traveling around with sample kits. 


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with whom we come in contact. 


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They both came through. 


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Indiana is proud of this gifted singer. 


T was here that she received her academic education and was honored with 
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Ernestinoff, the well-known teacher and conductor, and later under Rudolf 
Heyne, formerly of the Leipzig Conservatory Faculty and for some time a 
member of the Berlin Opera, that she received her musical education. 

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her splendid success in lieder and the delightful French songs and arias in her 
repertoire. Moreover the early study of the pianoforte has been of inestimable 
advantage. 

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so rich, so big and so true—that each tone seems more beautiful than the 
last, and it is used in a manner which shows rare artistic judgment. She has 
sung before discriminating audiences, having appeared at the annual meetings 
of The Indiana Musie Teachers’ Association, The Indiana Federation of Wom- 
en’s Clubs and similar organizations, where the wonderful quality of her voice 
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chosen field of endeavor is typically American. In a few short years, 
this winsome young contralto has become one of the most notable figures 
in the concert world. 


To story of Christine Miller and her rapid rise to supremacy in her 


Those who do not believe it possible to produce great singers without 
vears of study abroad will have to stop and think twice in this instance, or 
else accept the old adage: “There is always an exception to every rule,” for 
Miss Miller received practically her entire musical education in this country. 
To Myron L. Whitney of Boston, Miss Miller gives credit for her voice place- 
ment and early training. She has coached in repertoire with German, French, 
English and American masters, among them are Sir Henry Wood and Wil- 
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Haydn's “The Seasons” with the Meadville Oratorio Society, Meadville, Pa. 


Mr. Isaac K. Myers, of Pittsburgh, Pa., the baritone. was a new-comer and he 
established himself in favor. His voice is remarkably full and free and he uses an ex- 
pressive coloring of tone for the varied moods of his part. His perfect enunciation 
and wholesome natural style brought genuine applause.—The Tribune-Republican. 


With the German Saengerfest in Altoona, Pa. 


Mr. Isaac K. Myers, the eminent bass-baritone of Pittsburgh, charmed the audience 
with a rendition of ‘‘T’he Toreador’’ song from ‘‘Carmen.’’ Mr. Myers’ excellent 
voice and clear, sympathetic tones, delighted all who heard him, and he was forced to 
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Olive Nevin 


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in the person of Olive Nevin, soprano, who has come to New York from 

Los Angeles. Miss Nevin is a second cousin of two famous composers, the 
late Ethelbert Nevin and Arthur Nevin. Miss Nevin was well known in her 
home city, Pittsburgh, for before her marriage she sang before many clubs and 
in several of the Pittsburgh churches. 

As Mrs. Herbert Muzzy she took up her residence in Los Angeles and with 
little interruption she pursued her studies under Mme. Esther Pallises, well 
known in London and Paris. Miss Nevin did a great deal of singing in Los 
Angeles and with much success, giving recitals before clubs and at the dif- 


‘ NOTHER member of a noted musical family has entered the concert world 


ferent apartment houses and hotels, as is a custom in Los Angeles musical life, ° 


besides singing at many private musicales for her friends. She always has 
used her maiden name in this work. Her last appearance in Los Angeles was 
with the Woman’s Symphony Orchestra, singing arias from ‘“‘The Huguenots” 
and “Tosca” with marked success. 

After this appearance she decided to resume her professional work in 
the East. En route to New York she visited her family in Sewickley, the 
famous “Nevin suburb” of Pittsburgh. She was asked to sing with the Pitts- 
burgh Festival Orchestra, under Carl Bernthaler’s baton. Here she made 
a fine impression and was royally welcomed home. 

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of prominence among the foremost American artists by reason of a beau- 

tiful voice which is handled with consummate skill. Her appearance in 
Lockport last season was one of the notable events of the American Musical 
Convention, and her re-engagement for the Chautauqua is indicative of the 
success which she scored upon that occasion. 


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choral societies of America, among these being the Russian Symphony Orches- 
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fortunate combination of voice and musical intuition 
which not only pleases the ear with its charm and beauty but 
reaches the heart of the hearer as well. During the present 
season, this singer is devoting herself almost entirely to con- 
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accomplishments and is recognized as one of Boston’s leading Sopranos. 

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personal charm and beautiful voice, have made her exceedingly popular wher- 
ever she has appeared. 

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Sa rule, precocity rarely develops satisfactorily, but in the case of Neira 
PX Riegger, the exception proved the rule. Born in Warsaw, a small town 

in western New York, even as a child, she was capable of reading ex- 
ceptionally well and with equal ease learned to know the various standard 
compositions and memorized without difficulty. 

Neira Riegger is another example of American talent, American training 
and American industry. It has been well known for a long time that America 
is full of beautiful voices, but until recently adequate means for their proper 
development had not been accessible. This particular case is especially note- 
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Fom THINK OF IT IN THIS LIGHT? ‘The Ideal home is one that not 
neighbors. 


Look around and see the really successful houses. 


They are only a little larger or a little more costly than the average of 
the neighborhood, they occupy the same size lot or one only a trifle larger and 
may or may not be on the corner, their front wall lines with the other houses 
on the block and the roof line is not much different in color, in material, 
in detail. It is not very much different. 


It has about the same number of rooms although of a different arrange- 
ment. 


Why then is this house any better than the neighbors? 


Mainly, because it satisfies more of the requirements of the owner, of the 
neighborhood, and of architectures and constructors generally. 


The less you have to spend in building a home, the more important it is 
that you secure the longest possible life for your investment. 


The more you spend, the more important it is that your money shall 
represent a definite and permanent investment and not have to be spent over 
again in exasperating repairs. 


To secure this, material and workmanship are necessary. 


Most men know good material but they haven’t the time however, to 
watch unreliable workmen. 


They prefer the responsible man with steadfast habits. The man who 


has a knowledge of building and contracting. 


Never in the history of the world has there been such an insistent demand 
for men of responsibilitv, men who can be trusted to go ahead with their work 
without being watched, men who will do the right work in the right way and 
without losing any time about it. 


A man of this type is busy. 
This is the kind that wins and holds trade near and far. 


These are the main reasons why BEN D. SCHUYLER, one of Lockport’s 
leading contractors, turns away more work than he can do. 


He began at the bottom and won his way round by round up the ladder 
to business success. 


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United States and Canada. 


ideal in many a home in hundreds of cities and towns of the United 

States and her fame has extended even into Canada. One of the well 
known critics of New York City, wrote that Mme. Riheldaffer was America’s 
busiest soprano. Upon looking over this wonderful woman’s list of engage- 
ments filled in the last four seasons, one is convinced, beyond a doubt, that 
such really is the case. 


Toe name of Grace Hall Riheldaffer has come to stand for the musical 


Last season Mme. Riheldaffer filled a coast to coast tour of 100 concerts. 
She has been heard in every state in the Union except three. A conservative 
estimate of the number of persons who have come under the spell of her 
magnetic personality and wonderful voice would be one million people. Every- 
where she appeared she was announced as one of America’s greatest sopranos, 
and a glimpse of her scrap book will convince anyone that the press of the 
country was quick to concede to her the right of such announcement. 


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called, has been greatly admired. 

Madame Rio was invited in London by Maestro Mancinelli, Conductor of 
the Royal Opera of Rome, to sing the part of “Amina” in Sonnambula with 
Alessandro Bonci at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome, during the great season oi 
the Exposition of Rome. After this performance she was invited by the great 
“Augusteo Orchestra” to appear as the only assisting artist at one of the 
subscription concerts. This is the only event in the history of this world re- 
nowned institution that an American has been the sole attraction. Another 
honor conferred upon Madame Rio by the Roman public, and in which no 
other American has ever participated, was an invitation by the aristocratic 
old “Lyceum Club” to appear at a great concert in commemoration of Franz 
Liszt. Madame Rio sang the composer’s famous aria, “Die Lorelei,” and after 
a great ovation was presented with the gold medal of the “Lyceum Club” of 
Xome. 

In Lendon she has appeared several times as soloist with the London 
Symphony Orchestra and at the Bechstein Hall concerts. 


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HI Bertha Lansing Rodgers, a contralto new to this city, sang the aria, ‘‘My Heart 
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two Schumann songs, Mondnacht and Ich Grolle Nicht. She was heartily recalled after 
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HHI exclusively as any singer ever heard here. So free. is she from the meretricious, from 
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Miss Siedhoff was born in Lockport, N. Y., and was educated in music 
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F Miss Blossom Jean Wilcox musical America is destined to be justly 
@ proud. For this young native soprano, gifted with a naturally beautiful 

voice, has been entirely American trained, having received her Bachelor’s 
degree from Oberlin Conservatory of Music and her subsequent training and 
coaching from the studios of Dr. Frederick Bristol and Mr. Frank La Forge 
of New York City. and bids fair, by the extraordinary success that has greeted 
her work thus far, for a pre-eminent place in the coterie of truly distinguished 
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The White Blossoms 
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The Daughter | 

Maria Mia Wht 

Serenade in Sevilla i 

Con Amore Schirmer | 

Sal Down de Stream 

Star Tracks 

Fairy Castles 

On Dress Parade 

Winter Butterflies 

Sleep Song 


Louisiana Lullaby 


(chorus) John Church 


Song of the Thistle 
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One Golden Day 

Song of the Thistle 
Drift 

Flower Time Weather 


Huntzinger & | 
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Sing a Song of Roses 
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Winter |\Ditson 


Sing a Song of Roses 
The King 


If I Were King of 
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In the Ilex Shadows 


Boosey 


Call of the Trail \ 
Spinning Wheel Song MM 
The Little Ghosts White Smith 
The Painter 

Springtide of Love 


Fay Foster 


Composer 


Winner of ‘‘Die ‘Woche’’ (Berlin, Ger.) Prize, 4,222 contestants—Prize 
composition, ‘‘Prairie Flowers’’, Piano. 

Winner of first prize American Song Competition, New York, 1913—prize com- 
positions, ‘‘Winter’’, ‘‘Call of the Trail’’, ‘‘The King’’, ‘‘Spinning Wheel Song.’’ 

Winner of first prize ‘‘Etude’’ contest for piano solo, Philadelphia, 1916,— prize 
composition, ‘‘Etude de Concert.’’ 

Fay Foster’s songs are taught in the leading studios of all our large cities. 


Sung on the Concert Platform by 


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Sopranos Contraltos Tenors Baritones II) 
Julia Allen Clara Clemens (Babrilo- Paul Althouse Vernon Archibald an 
Harriet Bawden witsch) Dan Beddoe Geo. Fleming | 


Anna Case (Metropolitan 
Opera Co.) 

Jenny Dufau 

Hazel Eden (Chicago Opera 
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Lois Ewell (Century Opera 
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Ethel Frank 

Anica Fabry 

Beatrice Fine 

Lucy Gates 

Lora Hoffman 

Jane Osborne Hanna 

Minna Kaufman 

Charlotte Lund 

Lucy Marsh 

Louise McMillen 

Etta Hamilton Morris 

Florence Anderson Otis 

Bthelynde Smith 


Marie Ellerbrook 
Amy Ellerman 

Litta Grimm 

Harriet Hemenway 
Mrs. Frederick Gunther 
Mary Jordan 
Christine Levine 
Laura Maverick 
Beatrice McCue 
Christine Miller 
Louise Mertens 
Eleanor Patterson 
Constance Purdy 
Nevada Van der Veer 
Eva Emmet Wycoff 


Rubenstein Club, 


Calvin Coxe 

Geo. Dostal 

Paul Dufault 
Rafaelo Diaz 
Hallett Gilberte 
Harvey Hindermyer 
Orville Harold 
Roland Hayes 
Joseph Mathien 
Reed Miller 

Geo. Reimherr 
Leon Rice 

Roy Williams Steele 


New York 
Mundell Club, Brooklyn, N.Y. 


Mozart Society, 


Chas. Norman Granville 
Frederick Gunther 
Randall Hargreaves 
Alexander Heinemann 
Percy Hemus 
Harold Land 
Frederick Martin 
Ashley Ropps 
Oscar Seagle 
Louis Shenk i 
Earle Tuckerman 1 
James Stanley 
Jerome Uhl Hh 


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Her appearance in Lockport on Composers’ Day, October 4th, will be 
awaited with pleasure by thousands of admirers from western New York. 
Mrs. Bond has written upward of three hundred and fifty songs of which 
the following are most representative: 


“A PERFECT DAY” 

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“JUST A ‘WHARYIN’ FOR YOU” 
NOD VANE 
“A SONG OF THE HILLS” 
“LIFE’S GARDEN 
“A HUNDRED YEARS FROM NOW” 
“COMPENSATION” 

“AIS LULLABY” 

“A LITTLE PINK ROSE” 


Cin the JACOBS-BOND is perhaps one of the best known song-writers 


Many booklets of song have also come from the press of Carrie Jacobs- 
Bond & Son. 


“SEVEN SONGS” 
“LITTLE KITTEN SONGS AND STORIES” 
“NINE SONGS” 
“THN SONGS” 
“HLEVEN SMALL SONGS” 
“HALF MINUTE SONGS” 


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HE City of Lockport, as its name indicates, is an offspring of the Erie Canal. When the engineers 
ali of that marvelous enterprise directed its alignment to the gorge through which the water of the Erie 

level passed on its way to Lake Ontario the settlement had a beginning and from the great 
mechanical structure for the passage of boats from one level to another the hamlet took its name. 

The contract for the first set of Locks was let in 1821. The first post office was established in 1828. 
It was incorporated as a village in 1829. Lockport is the county seat of Niagara County. It is less 
than one hour’s ride from the great Falls and the blue expanse of Ontario. High and dry, its natural sani- 
tary conditions are the most favorable. It is surrounded by the finest fruit farms in the world. Niagara 
County apples and pears are famous the world over. These helpful surrounding conditions coupled 
with the extensive and varied manufacturing indnstries within the city makes Lockport prosperous the 
year round. In Lockport, the ideal Home-City of America, it is always bright with the gold of profit. 


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Having made it my home for the last fourteen years, I have naturally watched its growth with 
interest and learned to love its people. I do not regard this sentiment merely as a duty, for a 
man without this appreciative sentiment for his home town lacks an essential element of true manhood. 

Owing my success to the support and big heartedness of the Lockport people, I claim nothing 
for myself that I am not willing to share with them. As a musical center, Lockport ranks with 
the best; as a city, it is as near perfection from all the stand points of a community and municipality 
as could be desired. 

No kingly gift could be richer or goodlier than Jiockport’s location. Situated midway between 
New York and Chicago in the line of direct travel; set down in the heart of the richest fruit belt 
in America; it knows no want. It is the ideal home city of the country, within a radius of 60 miles 
from Lockport live eight millons of people. 

Thanks to the tempering winds of Lakes Erie and Ontario, winter has no terrors. Summer 
smiles on the blossoming land with a warmth that cheers and causes love for your fellowman. The 
Gods are good to the music lovers of I.ockport for, from the inception of its concert series years 
ago music lovers have wended their ways under clear skies and smiling stars. Shaded streets and 
beautiful grounds, surrounding the comfortable and handsome homes have made Lockport for years 
the envy of neighbors and visitors. 

Lockport with its Live Wire committee; with its energetic Board of Commerce; thoroughly alive 
to things worth while believes :— 

“It ain’t the individual, nor the people as a whole, 
But the everlastin’ teamwork of every bloomin’ soul’’ 
THAT MAKES FOR A.BIGGER AND BETTER OITY. 


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should he choose any other route, he will scarcely have crossed the city line before 
some aspect of the place will have spelled ‘‘welcome’’, and a stay of even a few hours 
will make him feel at home. This has been the experience of guests without number. 


Ir the traveler comes to Lockport in the commonplace way over steel rails, little is 


Let the stranger come over the sandy ridge from the east; he will feel, as many a 
notable visitor before him has done, a great joy in contemplating that garden of the 
county rolling away to the right, whose splendid productiveness simplifies the food 
problems of the home-makers of Lockport. Substantial houses on fruitful farms 
multiply, and crowd to the very city’s edge. One claims attentions in its enviable 
middle position between country and town. In cool self-possession it stands a bit 
aloof,—but not forbidding. Doubtless its walls could tell not only of a present de- 
lightful home atmosphere but of an old-time hospitality that would renew the 
youth and warm the heart of many a one whose presence has graced its fireside. 


From this stately home with its expansive orchards and flowering garden, the 
eye turns to a white house not far away that stands a cheerful sentinel over lake and 
hills and pleasure grounds, revealing the sights and echoing the sounds of happy 
recreation. Good cheer, good health, good comradeship in this place—homelike 
beyond a question—Lockport’s Country Club. 


Suppose one coming from our neighbor city, spins along that Transit way that 
runs almost unbroken from the Pennsylvania line due north till it dips in Lake 
Ontario. He must slow down and turn along the whispering and alluring hedge ot 
spruces bounding the highway, then again, and he will have passed a dozen places 


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Hall Is the Leading Business School of Western New York 
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Commercial and Shorthand Teachers than any other similar school in the 


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each of which meets his ideal of a city home with every country delight. Broad acres 
narrow toward the street into fascinating gardens, and spacious lawns surround 
roomy houses that are far from lacking in luxury. Truly a place to work, a place to 
play, a place to live. 


Should he skirt the city at greater length before taking the popular route north- 
ward over ‘“‘The Hill’? he may have a queer feeling of having gone in a circle and of 
looking down the avenue that he so proudly boasts in his home city. There nor else- 
where will be found more beautiful houses, nor more lovely grounds nor a clearer, 
purer atmosphere. Some of these houses have a very familiar air. And now from 
right, now left, sweet memories of older days come crowding, of the earlier builders, 
well-Known and well-beloved to whose foundations have been added touches of 
strength and of beauty, by other and younger hands. 


One entrance to Lockport that extends especial hospitality to strangers, is from 
the west along the Mountain road. No novice will believe that the Canadian shore, 
full fifty miles away, has been seen from this road, because perhaps the mirage does 
not present itself on the particular day of his visit. Other attractions and beauties, 
however, do present themselves whatever the atmospheric condition or whatever the 
season of the year. If one may choose a season, let it be spring, and if one may 
choose a month, let it be May,—for in this month the best of all fairy transforma- 
tions take place here and everywhere in the county. Blossoms,—of apple, of cherry, 
of peach and pear, and of the despised quince,—blossoms overhanging the road, 
down the cross-roads,—near at hand, in the distance, everywhere. No city in the 
whole world has more fascination in the month of May in its country surroundings, 
and none is more attractive in itself, for every dooryard and side garden and back 
garden is a replica of the blooming beauty of the world just outside. 


Indeed all flowers seem to do their best for the gardener in Lockport. From 
earliest spring till frost days, even the humblest homes are embowered in floral 
beauty. Trailing plants carpet the gardens, climbing plants screen the porches, and 
when encouraged peep in at second story windows, luxuriant shrubbery conceals un- 
sightly spots,—and in trees almost every Lockport home could simulate the famous 
“Birnam wood that came to Dunsinane’’. 


The native soil may pout and refuse to grow the rhododendron and other peat- 
loving plants, but it will make up for that a thousand fold with every conceivable 
growth not hostile to the winter frosts or limestone foundations. 


Should one come into this garden city from one of the prosperous villages that 
cluster inthe northwestern part of the county,—LeValley’s Flats, Stony Hill, Rattle- 
snake Hill, Mineral Spring’s gulf, and even the heights that give wooded seclusion to 
those silent abodes at the ‘‘sign of the cross’, all sink into the imaginative soul. 
From the gully, the hurrying stream sends up an impatient call to more serious con- 
templation—for in this sound of rushing water and in the farther noise of whirring 
machinery and striking iron is presented the throbbing pulse of the laboring city. 
Splendid workshops have been seen in other directions; but by this stream were 
turned the primitive wheels of industry and by this stream were built the early homes 
of the far away village life. It is still the chief artery of the manufacturing life of 
the place. 


It is upgrade now for a mile or so. Mills and other mills proclaim a material 
and far reaching productivity. Iron tracks with puffing trains carry into the absorb- 
ing world products of brain and hand of the artisan; and whether of iron, or paper, 
or lumber, or flour, they go to supply a needy market and bear in return a plentiful 
treasure to sustain the homes of the workers. Few of their houses are large, none 
pretentious, but most of them prosperous, happy homes. 


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Memories of ‘‘old times, old friends’”’ bring one up the old toll gate hill and along 
the new highway -from the twelve mile distant lake. Up and up, with eyes lifted to 
the clustering spires of the county seat, past Wyndham Lawn where even the most 
unloved and unloving must feel a tender pull at the heartstrings. All over the build- 
ings and the acres, not in language of the eye or of the ear, but of the soul, is written 
the word ‘‘Home’’. For little children who have lost their birthright, whose natural 
environment has been broken,—for little children, many of them motherless, many of 
them fatherless,—loving friends have chosen for their abiding place this former home 
of our great state’s governor and of others as well who have left traditions of culture 
and beauty and happiness. All that human power can do, has been done to make this 
a place where no shadow may fall upon a child because of his need. 


Two other splendid sheltering homes, one on the right, the other on the left, 
thrill the passerby with their noble expression of “‘faith, hope and love’”’. 


The most unexpected of all home sights presents itself to one crossing the bridge 
over the Erie canal. Stately houses stretch away for blocks, perfect in architecture, 
commanding in proportions, strong in structure. Memory and imagination join hands. 
Names well known in music, in history, in romance and on friendship’s roll start 
forth from every opening crevice of the stone-built walls. Dignified and kindly men 
throw wide the doors, beautiful women press their faces to the windows, costly equip- 
ages are drawn up ready for the use of pleasure of the owners, carefully reared chil- 
dren appear in the foreground. These are dream children and now are mostly sleep- 
ing. Reality asks, whe are the dark-skinned, bright-eyed little ones that crown this 
street and claim it for their own? These are children of a sunnier clime, whose 
parents gifted with a love for the beautiful have crowded themselves in ever multiply- 
ing numbers into these old-time beauty spots of Lockport. 


Still the children of this, and the grandchildren of that, splendid century-old 
house have created for themselves other beautiful homes, with the common senti- 
ment that the hill overlooking a valley gives a finer breathing space than the valley 
itself. 


Whether from a spirit of restlessness, of utility, or of discriminating choice this 
change of residence section has had many twists since the earliest days. Nature too 
has given some form of precedence to different portions, so that no part of a street, no 
street, no locality may justly lay too broad a claim to be the most attractive home- 
spot. Should every chief avenue of travel have been exhausted an unpremeditated 
turn might easily bring one to some home, large or simall, presenting a proportion, 
an environment, an indescribable something, that would draw him to the open door 
there to discern the same proportion and coloring and grouping of home belongings, 
and too the same indefinable something, called perhaps atmosphere, and a ready and 
individual hospitality of which these outward forms, to be consistent and satisfying, 
must be the expression. 


So insignificant a builder as that lower form of life in sea or stream, or lake, by 
some God-given power constructs its shell from within out and makes of it a thing of 
rare beauty while fashioned upon and expressing its own simple life and needs. 


The skies of this little city may not be bluer than those elsewhere, the flowers 
may not spring more spontaneously. It may not be more fortunate than others in its 
distance from mountain, lake and metropolis, its children may not have better op- 
portunities for education,—but the loyal citizen believes these and many other good 
things to be true and his own life thoroughly reflects this belief. And when he goes 
abroad—whether it is thousands of miles or only tens of miles, and turns again, he 
feels that the home-leading roads are the best in the world and when he has retraced 
their length, into his heart comes a radiant joy as he says ‘“‘Home again’’. 


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OCKPORT is a city of 19,000. 
| ad The value of the Products turned out by the factories of Lockport during the past 
season was over $17,000,000. 


There are 130 factories in the city. 


Number of wage earners employed in the different factories approximately 4,000. 
210 persons out of every one thousand population are factory operatives. 


Lockport has an annual pay roll of over $2,500,000. This is exclusive of office salaries. 


The most important industries are Paper and Fibre Product, Ist; Flour Industry, 2nd; 
Automobile Parts, 3rd; Steel, Iron and Metal Works, 4th. Other important industries are 
Glass Ware, Textile, Cotton Batting, Printing and Book Making, Shirt, 


Brooms and 
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It might be a good thing for the general public to know that the City of Lockport con- 
tributes more towards the wealth of the state than the combined agricultural and fruit in- 
dustries of Niagara County after deducting the amount consumed by the rural population. 


The full development of the extra water granted by the United States Government to be 
taken out of the Niagara River and brought to Lockport by Barge Canal should double the 
water-power and be of great value to the community. 


With the completion of additions to industries now under construction one thousand 
additional wage earners will be added to Lockport’s pay roll. Lockport is experiencing the 
most substantial growth in its history. Confidence and optimism in the future of the city 


are freely expressed and a greater Lockport is fast becoming a reality. 


This city has in proportion to its population a reputation for musical culture second to 
none in the United States. 


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Without proper food it is impossible to possess a sound mind 
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REV. J. WEBSTER BAILEY, D D. 


PASTOR 


XResidence—128 Ontario St. 


Morning ‘Services 4. cane nn cements ones 10:30 
Sunday School. oeren wate eee 12 Noon. 
Hvening Servicéi).cors4 cee ee, vance ee 7:30 
Mid-week (Service mycgrccee tart ee ene eee 
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First English 
Lutheran Church 


REV. MORITZ -G. 1. 


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Residence—278 \Vashburn Street 


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Bible: School 3425 1 eas ae oe ene 12 Noon 
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First Presbyterian 


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REV. G. A. PAPPERMAN, M. A., B. D. 


Second Presbyterian 


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REV. G. A. JAMESON, D.D. 
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Residence—Genesee Apartments : : 
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Morning? Services. Joye oe ate. 10:30 | Mid-week Prayer Service— 
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First Methodist 
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REV. S. J. CLARKSON 
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Residence—85 Niagara Street 


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East Avenue 
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Morning Worship at 10:30 
Choir under the direction of Mrs. Charles H. 
Wendell, Choirister 
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Bible School at 12 Noon. 


Edwin F, Flinchbaugh, Superintendent. 


Evening Service at 7:30. 
Vested chorus of 40 voices 
Short Address by Pastor 
Popular. 


Interesting. Inspiring. 


Public Always Welcome. 


‘First Baptist 
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REV. CHARLES P. COLLETT 
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Residence—43 Harvey Ave 


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LAWYERS 


CUTHBERT W. POUND 
Justice Supreme Court 
Court House. 345 High St. 


BURT A. SMITH 
City Judge 
35 Pound St. 


WM. J. HOOPER 
Police Judge 
18 Le Van Ave. 


WM. A. GOLD 
City Attorney 
KF. & M.S. B. Bldg. 230 Genesee St. 


W. W. BRIM 
185 High St. 
DAVID, TICE 
F. & M.S. B. Bldg. 70 Genesee St. 
A. A. BRADLEY 
13-15 Main St. 56 Webb St 
FREDERICK P. JAMES 
HF. & M.S. B. Bdg. 157 High St. 
A. EDMUND LEE 
51-54 F. & M.S. B. Bldg. 60 Hast Ave. 
ABNER T. HOPKINS 
67 Main St. 376 High St. 
CHARLES HICKEY 
BP MS) Bs Bldg. 337 High St. 
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41-43 F.& M.S. B. Bldg. 272 East Ave. 
CARL L. FRITTON 
69 Main St 459 East Ave. 


79 Main St. 


55 Main St. 


67 Main St. 


STACY D. BEHE 
F. & M.S. B. Bldg. 49 Grant St. 
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45 Main St. 70 Maple St. 


MERTIN K. DOTY 
87 Main St. 351 Walnut St. 
ROY H. ERNEST 
52 Main St. 31 Spruce St. 
M. A. FEDERSPEIL 
91 Main St. 452 High St. 
a W. T. RANSOM 
87 S. Transit St. 
GEORGE W. RILEY 
73 Main St. 30 North St. 


69 Main St 


J. FRANK SMITH 


F. & M. Bldg. West Ave. 


W. W. STORRS 
F.'& M.S. B. Bldg. 244 LocustSt. 


BURT G. STOCKWELL 
4] Main St. 128 East Ave. 


FRANK E. STOCKWELL 
87 Main St. 


155 Spalding 
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51-54 F.& M.S. B. Bldg. 172 High St. 


ALFRED B. LEIBOLD 
87 Main St. 313 Willow St. 


DONALD 8. MOORE 
71 Main St. 210 High St. 


BK. M. ASHLEY 
F. & M.S. B. Bldg. 455 Locust St. 


~ MONTFORD C. HOLLEY _ 

50 Main St 175 Locust St. 
WM. S. CATON 

50 Main St. 120 Ontario St. 


W.W.CAMPBELL 
41 Main St. Cor. High & Washburn 


CHARLES C. DE LUDE 
Main St. 160 Genesee St. 


S. WALLACE DEMPSEY 
Il. & M.S: B. Bldg. 143 High St. 


JOHN R. EARL, JR. 
23-24 Hodge Bldg. 170 East Ave. 


GEORGE D. JUDSON 
50 Main St. Middleport, N. Y. 


CHARLES L. NICHOLLS 
45 Main St. 432 Willow St. 
EDWARD G. PARKER 
79 Main St. 356 High St. 
WM. HO BART | 
23-24 Hodge Bldg. 247 Locust St. 
H. D. WARREN 
F. & M. Bldg. 139 Hast Ave. 


GEO. C. LEWIS 
F. & M. Bldg. 152 Cottage St. 


AUGUSTUS MORRIS 
Hodge Blde. 75 Pound St. 


FRED D. MOYER 
Tyler Bldg. 


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DOCTORS 


FLAVIUS J. BAKER, M. D. 
Cor. Pine & Walnut St. 94 Walnut St. 


CAS BACK DEY. M aD: 
68-70 Main St. 243 Washburn St. 


HARLEY U. CRAMER, M. D. 
The Genesee The Genesee 
” F, A. CROSBY, M. D. 
13-15 Main St. 69 Niagara St. 
BR. R.B. FITZ-GERALD, M.D. __ 
F. & M.S. B. Bldg. 330 Washburn St. 


S. WRIGHT HURD, M.D. 
Hodge Bldg. 234 Genesee St. 


~ DRS. L. R. & MARY C. HURLBUT © 
Hodge Bldg 


¥. A. KITTINGER, M.D. _ 
Coroner 
High & Park Place 


Hodge Blde. 
WARREN H. LOOMIS, M. D. 

36 Main St. 24 Waterman St. 
ALLAN N. MOORE, M.D. — 

70 Niagara Ave. 70 Niagara Ave. 
HARRY J. PARKER, M.D. 
Hodge Bldg. Tuscarora Club 
CHARLES L. PREISCH, M. D. 

44 Main St. 424 High St. 
WILLIS P. WEAVER, M. D. 

121 Main St. 
“F, A. WALDER 
Cor. Locust and Walnut Sts. 

~ G. S. DICKINSON 
97 Main St. 159 Walnut St. 
L. H. WHEELER 
51 Main St. 


Transit St. 


“W. C. WooD 
165 East Ave. 
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48 Main St. 98 Niagara St. 


OSTEOPATHS 
CHARLES A., AND CLARA H. KAISER 
I. & M.S. B. Bldg. 51 Park Place 


HARRY M. HARRIS 
Hodge Block 


CHIROPRACTIC 


GEORGE P. KRESS 
Hodge Bldg. 55 Harrison Ave. 


MARGARET SCOTT 
Walnut St. 


DENTISTS 


W. J. LEAKE 

Washburn St. 
F. J. MOYER ei 

204 Lock St. 


53 Main St. 


Murphy Blk. 


BENTON BEMENT, D.D.S. 
93 Main St. 84 Elmwood Ave. 


J. WM. DALY 


106 Main St. 141 Hast Ave. 


Cc. R. DOWNS 
100 Main St. 342 Pine St. 


D. P. GAUGEL 
127 Main St. 
J. C. DUNCAN 
122 Cottage St. 
R. A. GEMMILL 
Hodge Blk. 


A. L. PEARSON 
Murphy Blk. Slayton Settlement Rd. 
FRANK C. WEAVER 
6 West Ave. 35 Spalding St. 
SC sHanee ae 
Hodge Block 
J. F.CLIFFORD 
75 Main St. 30 Harvey Ave. 
THOMAS F, SHERLOCK 
75 Main St. 40 Cleveland Place 
—¢. 5, OSHANEGY 
125 Elmwood Ave. 


6 West Ave. 


2 Main St. 


WM. E. JENNEY, D.D.S. 
77 Main St. 386 Washburn St. 


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W. H. HAMMOND 
S86 Main St. 123 High St. 
BK. N. S. RINGUEBERG 
13 Main St. 431 Willow Ave. 


JOHN OUTWATER 
Savings Bk Bldg, Rooms 25-26, 2nd Floor 


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Lockport couldn’t stand still if she wished to 


Her exceptional location, and her unusual facilities for the receipt of raw 
material and her trans-shipment of manufactured goods are trade magnets 
which must draw Industry and quicken Commerce. 


Another element which has already done much to strengthen the city is 
In the Famous fruit belt of Niagara County, Lockport 


the fruit industry. 
is the heart hub. 


Wise and progressive publicity will spread the joint fame of that rich 
County and of Lockport, and speed the inevitable era of added growth and 
added prosperity. 


And that publicity will flow from the now wide-awake and_ loyally 


patriotic civie pulse, the Board of Commerce. 

Lecation, freight facilities, rich surrounding country, civic pride and 
patriotism—those are the factors which Lockport depends upon. Could ANY 
COMMUNITY ask for more? 


Lockport Light, Heat & Power Company 


Trevor Manufacturing Company 


Manufacturers of 


Shingle, Stave, Heading and 
Handle Machinery 


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You can have beautiful walls and ceilings like these! 


They are Upsonized—Lined with Dependable 
Upson PROCESSED BOARD 


HERE is undoubtedly some room in your home that you would like to permanently 
al beautify—some old walls and ceilings that you would like to make new. You can f 
do it quickly, easily and at little expense with Upson PROCESSED Board. For 
any carpenter or handy man can nail the big, woodlike panels right over old plaster fey 
or to new frame work. 


And think of the SATISFACTION of knowing that your walls and ceilings could 
never chip, crack or fall! 


Think of the COMFORT of having walls and ceilings that could be wiped off and 


kept spotlessly fresh and clean—the comfort of having a lining on your walls and ceil- /} 
ings that would make your home more comfortable the year round! 4 


And think of the ECONOMY of Upsonized walls and ceilings that do away with 
the expense of replastering or repapering every season or two! 


But be sure you get Upson PROCESSED Board-—-made in Lockport. It is DIF- 
FERENT from other wall boards—harder and stiffer and more woodlike—therefore 
easier and cheaper to apply. 

Upson Board is also scientifically KILN CURED to minimize contraction and expansion; 
WATERPROOFED to protect it against the penetration of dampness and moisture and vA 
ordinary leaks; And READY PRIMED or SURFACE FILLED to make it cheaper to paint / 
by $5 to $15 a thousand square feet besides giving it a more perfect painting surface 4 x 
upon which soft, dainty tints or warm, rich shades can be faithfully reproduced. 

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be made more attractive and more comfortable with Upson PROCESSED Board. 7 aS 
There is no limit to its possibilities of use and decoration. f ® 

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Let us tell you more about this modern, DURABLE, DEPENDABLE lining Wh Sahoo Qe 
for your walls and ceilings. Let us tell you about Upson-Fibre-Tile for bath- 4 . 
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HARRISON 


ORIGINAL HEXAGON 
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Through our co-operation with the Hudson 
Motor Car Co., we developed this new shutter 
front. Its simple and effective means of control 
of cold air passing through the radiator is an 
indication of achievement in this important 
branch of automobile development. 


You can identify the HARRISON by its original 


arrangement of cells—Gives more cooling capacity 
with less weight. 


The Harrison Mfg. Con Inc. 
Lockport. New York 


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First until the Last Day 


Lockport’s Biggest and Fastest Growing Daily 


...This Book is printed by the Corson Manufacturing Company, Printers and Publishers. . . 


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GHREE REASONS FOR CGHIS BOOK 


FIRST—To give a general outline of the convention, as planned, 
announcing speakers, artists and choral attractions. 

SECON D—To give national publicity to the many who take 
part and the movement in general. 

THIRD—A means of underwriting a large portion of the neces- 
sary expense involved in bringing the convention to 
Lockport. 


A word of thanks and appreciation is due and given to those 
who have so-kindly and willingly aided in this under- 
taking. 


The Van De Mark musical activities in Lockport 
Began Oct. 4th 1912 Will end Dee. 11th, 1924 


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